Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 22

The Barber then went on to the palace, and as he was cutting the King’s hair, he told him about the miraculous child, whose hair and nails turned into jewels.

Who acts: Barber · What happens: go on, cut, tell, turn · To what, where: hair, Boy, jewels · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Mouse’s Three Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Barber), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Barber	det
2	Barber	Barber	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 went	advmod
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 palace	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 palace	det
8	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 told	cc
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 cutting	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cutting	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cutting	aux
14	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 told	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 King	det
16	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 hair	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 King	case
18	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cutting	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cutting	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	nsubj
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	iobj
23	about	about	ADP	_	26 child	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 child	det
25	miraculous	miraculous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 child	amod
26	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 told	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hair	punct
28	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	29 hair	nmod:poss
29	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 child	appos
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 nails	cc
31	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hair	conj
32	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 hair	acl
33	into	into	ADP	_	34 jewels	case
34	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 turned	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	the Barber				then	to the palace	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cut	past · progressive	barber	the King's hair					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Product
3	tell speech: assert	past	barber		Boy			about the miraculous child	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about child=Topic
4	turn	participle		the miraculous child's hair and nails not said here		jewels			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into jewel=Trajectory

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 22

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 22